Heyas! I wanted to post this for those others who are frustrated with the download issues associated with the massive influx of us from the HumbleBundle charity campaign. I saw a comment somewhere where someone else had success, I tried their method, and it worked for me. I just finished downloading the 70MB Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box, after two days of trying. As the Paizo folks have been saying clicking multiple times just adds more requests to the queue, which will slow things down.
Things to know (if someone from Paizo has official numbers/corrections, please feel free!):
Your login session timeout: seems to be at 10 or 15 minutes. THIS WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR DOWNLOAD!
Personalization time: seems to be over an hour. The "10 seconds" message is probably what, under normal, non-Humble-ized load, conditions could expect.
Download cached: Once your download finishes processing the watermarks, the server will hold it for about 3 hours, under current conditions.
Method to successful download:
1.) Log in to Paizo
2.) Redeem your keys. Can do all or just the ones you need soon.
3.) Go to your Downloads via the link at the top of the page (might have to log in again, looks like Single Sign On (SSO) is not enabled)
4.) Click the file that you want to download
5.) Set a timer for 90 minutes (1 hour 30 minutes). I highly recommend using an alarm (phone, actual alarm clock, whatever) so that you do not miss your window of time!
6.) Close all browsers, walk away, hangout with family/friends/pets/whatever.
7.) When your alarm goes off, open a new browser, log into Paizo.
8.) Go to your Downloads, click on the SAME LINK YOU TRIED TO DOWNLOAD BEFORE!
9.) You should now have a new message at the top stating that your download will begin in 5 seconds!
10.) If/Then Loop
IF Step9 == Complete
THEN GOTO Step4
^_^
Note: I only tried this with one download at a time. Perhaps with the new servers Paizo is standing up, you can do this with more than one, but, the above is EXACTLY what I did, and it worked. Those of you who want to try with variables (simultaneous downloads, shorter time, etc.), I wish you luck.
